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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Overview"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Overview</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Variants"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Variants</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#AWE-SIMM"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">AWE-SIMM</span></a></li>
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<p>The <i>Sound Blaster AWE64</i> is significantly smaller than its predecessor, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_AWE32" title="Sound Blaster AWE32">Sound Blaster AWE32</a>. It offers a similar feature set, but also has a few notable improvements.</p>
<p>AWE64 has support for greater <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphony" title="Polyphony">polyphony</a>
 than the AWE32. Unfortunately, these additional voices are achieved via
 software-based processing on the system CPU. The technology, called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WaveGuide&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="WaveGuide (page does not exist)">WaveGuide</a>,
 synthesizes the instrument sounds rather than using stored instrument 
patches like the hardware voices. This not only demands more processing 
power from the host system, but also is not of equal quality to 
available <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundFont" title="SoundFont">SoundFonts</a>.
 The inability to adjust synthesis parameters, unlike with the hardware 
portion of the AWE64, also limited the WaveGuide function's usefulness.</p>
<p>Another improvement comes from better on-board circuitry that increases the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio" title="Signal-to-noise ratio">signal-to-noise ratio</a>
 and overall signal quality compared to the frequently quite noisy AWE32
 and Sound Blaster 16 boards. This improvement is most notable with the 
AWE64 Gold, because of its superior gold plated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_connector" title="RCA connector">RCA connector</a>
 outputs. The improvement also comes from increased integration of 
components on AWE64 compared to its predecessors. Increased integration 
means the board can be simpler and trace routing to components is 
reduced, decreasing the amount of noise-inducing signal travel. This 
also made it possible to reduce the size of AWE64's board noticeably, 
compared to AWE32.</p>
<p>The <i>Sound Blaster AWE32</i> boards allowed sample RAM expansion through the installation of 30-pin <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_random_access_memory" title="Dynamic random access memory" class="mw-redirect">fast-page DRAM</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMM" title="SIMM">SIMMs</a>.
 These SIMMs were commodity items during the time of AWE32 and AWE64, 
because they were used for many other applications, including plain 
system RAM. As such, Creative had no control over their sale. So, with 
the AWE64, Creative moved to proprietary RAM expansion modules which 
only they manufactured and sold. These memory boards were priced rather 
high. Their limited production also has made it quite difficult to 
expand an AWE64's RAM capacity since the AWE64 left production.</p>
<p>AWE64, in the end, was basically a revision of the AWE32. Quality of 
components and output was improved and cost of manufacturing was 
lessened. Functionality of the hardware was nearly identical. The boards
 were based around the AWE32's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mu" title="E-mu" class="mw-redirect">E-mu</a> 8000 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-based_synthesis" title="Sample-based synthesis">sample-based synthesis</a> chipset, E-mu effects processor, and a Creative audio <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processor" title="Digital signal processor">DSP</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec" title="Codec">codec</a> for digital sound playback.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Variants">Variants</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sound_Blaster_AWE64&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Variants">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>The AWE64 came in three versions initially: A "Value" version (with 512KB of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access_memory" title="Random access memory" class="mw-redirect">RAM</a>), a standard version (with 1 MB of RAM), and a "Gold" version (with 4 MB of RAM, high quality 20bit DAC and a separate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDIF" title="SPDIF" class="mw-redirect">SPDIF</a> output).</p>
<p>A fourth version that arrived later was designed around the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect" title="Peripheral Component Interconnect" class="mw-redirect">PCI</a>
 bus. It offers the features of the original ISA AWE64, but it has the 
PCI interface and is built around an even more integrated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit" title="Application-specific integrated circuit">ASIC</a>.
 This made the board even more compact, and thus cheaper to build. 
Unfortunately, during this card's time, the issue of compatibility with 
older legacy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS" title="DOS">DOS</a> applications accessing PCI audio cards had not been ideally addressed. Creative created a motherboard port called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SB-Link&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="SB-Link (page does not exist)">SB-Link</a>
 that assisted the PCI bus in working with software that looked for the 
legacy I/O resources of ISA sound cards. Without this motherboard port, 
the card was incompatible with DOS software.</p>
<p>AWE64 PCI was later followed by the AWE64D, which was a variant of the PCI AWE64 that was developed for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_equipment_manufacturer" title="Original equipment manufacturer">OEMs</a>.
 It again offered the same feature support as other AWE64 cards, 
including the DOS support issues. The AWE64D was not quite compatible 
with AWE64 PCI drivers, however, and had to use separate driver 
packages.</p>
<p>An AWE64 Mark II was also designed, and prototype boards and drivers 
made. This card added 4 speaker surround sound for games, and a hardware
 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital" title="Dolby Digital">Dolby Digital</a>
 decoder. The six extra phono plugs (sub/center/left rear/right 
rear/digital in/digital pass through) and the extra Dolby decoder chips 
were placed on a second board which connected to the main board via a 
ribbon cable. The project was dropped in favor of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_Live%21" title="Sound Blaster Live!">Sound Blaster Live!</a> cards due to the high expense of such a solution, and the aging ISA interface.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="AWE-SIMM">AWE-SIMM</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sound_Blaster_AWE64&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: AWE-SIMM">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>In response to Creative's move towards a proprietary memory module, 
Jeff Briden created an adapter board that plugged into the AWE64 and 
allowed the user to install normal 30-pin <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMM" title="SIMM">SIMMs</a>. The AWE-SIMM was available for several years starting in 1998 but is no longer available.</p>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster" title="Sound Blaster">Sound Blaster</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq_AudioPCI" title="Ensoniq AudioPCI">Ensoniq AudioPCI</a></li>
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<li>Cross, Jason. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc/browse_thread/thread/a0f0dc2e35cd52b3">ALL ABOUT AWE64</a>, Google Groups, 2 April 1997. accessed 4 May 2007.</li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.html#toc1">Linux Self Help</a> Linux solution for AWE64</li>
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